Nordic Fabulation Network

The focus of this workshop was ‘Interventions’, to further refine and develop fabulation as a mode of designing futures, paying special attention to how fabulation might be made more relevant beyond formerly explored situations. In the Oslo workshop, it became clear that there was a need to help participants to re-attune to fabulatory thinking, and that engaging with fabulation in the…

This was the second workshop in the series, focused on “Approaches” to fabulating, building on the first workshop on “Concepts”.  Day 1: Threads we carried from the Umeå workshop, to continue tying knots   As both an introduction and a refresher, we started this workshop with a short presentation with an overview of what we have come to understand fabulating to be. The things we carried from Umeå were introduced as “things…

On June 8-9, the Nordic Fabulation Network held its first workshop in Umeå. This workshop was attended by 26 researchers based in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. The focus of the first workshop was “Concepts”, and apart from kicking off the project and establishing a community, we aimed to start exploring the conceptual framings around futures…

A few days after the kick-off of the “Nordic Fabulation Network” in Umeå, we continued our fabulations some 800 kilometres south, in another Swedish city with a beautiful river running through it: Norrköping. On June 12th, we facilitated a one-day workshop at Nordes, the Nordic Design Research Conference. The workshop was titled “Fabulating Futures for…

Here is where you can find updates, resources, and materials for the Nordic Fabulation workshop series as well as fabulation more generally. This blog will contain news, updates, documentation as well as short updates from organisers and participants of various workshops. More information and updates coming soon!